Carburetor



GARBURETER.

- Patented July 19 Fiy.1,

(NovModel.)

o..A lunnl-- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN CLINGMAN, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

l' CARBURETO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 244,434, dated July 19, 1881.

Application filed April 25, 1881. (No model.)

To all lwhom t may concern Be it known that I, JOHN CLINGMAN, of Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oarburetors'; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in floats for carburetors; and the novelty of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the parts, as will be herewith set forth and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l, is a central sectional view through the buried tank, showing the general arrangement of the float. Fig. 2 is a sectional view, in side elevation, through the line z z in Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the float with portions broken away to show the interior. Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional view, in end elevation, through one of the wick-chambers. Fig. 5 is a detail plan view in section.

The same letters indicate like parts in all the figures.

A, Fig. 1, is the ordinary tank or reservoir, buried beneath the surface of the ground and having a filling-inlet, B, an eXitpipe, C, for the gas, and an inlet-pipe, l), for the air, which is forced in-by an air-pump in the usual or any,

convenient way. f

The fica-t E is a floating cylindrical'case, of sheet metal, upon the top of which are substantially-radial chambers F, the interior construction of which can be best seen in Figs. 2, 4, and 5. The chambers practically subdivide the floatinto compartments G, near the top of each of which is a perforated plate or divisionpiece, H, parallel with and close to the top of the iioat.

Air is forced through the exible pipe I into a central chamber, J, Figs. 3 and 5, and escapes, through apertures a, into each of the compartments G, between the top and the perforated plates H; thence it passes through the perforations in the plates H, as shown by the arrows inFig. 2, down upon the surface of the liquid hydrocarbon (naphtha or gasoline) contained in the float, and becomes charged with its vapor. It then passes up between the wall of the chambers F and a perforated division plate, L, Figs. 2, 4, and 5, and is forced through a series of suspended wicks, M, hung in any suitable manner inthe chambers F, as shown, and having their lower ends extending down into the naphtha or other hydrocarbon contained in the float, as seen particularly in Fig. 2, and finally escapes through perforations b in the'side wall of the chambers F, as shown by the arrows in Figs. 2 and 4.

The purpose thus intended to be accomplished by the above arrangement of devices is to thoroughly charge the air with the vapor of the liquid hydrocarbon and produce a a rich illuminating-gas. For this purpose I consider the wicks,which take up the oil by capillary attraction, and through which the air has to pass, as especially important.

Another feature of my invention consists in adj ustably suspending the iioat to its buoy, so that the depth of the oil in the iioat may be regulated and adj usted.

Any annular or other buoys, N, may be employed, encircling the float and connected to it by links c, extending over the edge of the oat, as shown, and fastened permanently to the buoy.

The overlapping portion of the links has a perforation which fits over a threaded stem or rod whose lower end is secured in the float, and

nuts d'e are employed, one above and the other below the link, as seen in Fig. 2. By means of these nuts the float may be adj usted up or down relatively to the buoy.

The oil enters the oat through a flexible tube, j', which extends from a central nozzle, g, to the bottom ofthe tank A, and thus the level of the oil in the tank and in the iioat is always maintained, and impurities which iioat on the oil cannot enter the iioat.

Having thus fully. described my invention, I claim- 1. The herein v described carburetor-float, constructed with the dividing wick-containing chambers F, having outlet-perforations b, in combination with the perforated divisionplates'H and L and air-receiving chambers J, the whole constructed and relatively arranged in the manner and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, with a carburetor-float and its buoy, of connecting-links made adjust- IOO able, whereby the relative elevations of the In testimony whereof I havehereunto set my buoy and oat may be regulated; substantially hand. as described.

3. The combination, with a carburetor-doet;

5 of a. flexible inlet-tube, f, for the oil, whereby W'itnesses:

the oil contained in the oat is drawn from PATRICK H. GUNCKEL, the bottom of the tank, as and for the purpose CEAS. M. PEGK. specified.

JOHN CLINGMAN. 

